An interesting note about pretzels...their relatively larger amounts of baking soda (leavening) create a pH imbalance in the digestive tract of older people. This then leads to CO2 build-up.
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1,646 posted on 04/11/2019 10:34:53 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel
(Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)